Oscar winner John Cox on The Shuffle

Who would have thought that watching King Kong as a 14 year old could change your life?

It did for John Cox. At that very moment he decided that he wanted to make creatures for the movies.

At 21 he was a props assistant on Mad Max 2 and in the 90's a long came Babe.

He brought to life the farmyard animals to life and he won an Oscar Award for it.

We invited John, who specialises in Animatronics and Visual Effects, to be our guest on The Shuffle.

These are the four songs he chose to help tell his life story.

1. 'Abraham, Martin and John'- DionIn 1968-69 John was in grade six watching the moon landing, playing soccer with his friends and lying on the lounge room floor listening to this song. His dad got him interested in music and John says "the tv was never on around 7 o'clock at night" so he'd lie on the lounge room floor and fall asleep listening to music.

2. 'Lay my love'- Eno/Cale from the album 'Wrong Way Up' "If I didn't put this one in my wife would kill me". In 1995 just after he finished working on Babe he met 'Julie' and 9 and a half weeks later he married her. Going back from 95 to the 80's John set about to find all the singles that he grew up with. When he met Julie after the second week she had this song in her head but she didn't know what it was. It turned out to be from the tv series Northern Exposure. They looked for the credits and it was Eno/Cale, 'Lay my Love'. John remembers thinking, "hang on, I'm sure I've got an Eno/Cale album because there was on their songs spinning away that I really loved." He then went over to the CD rack, pulled it out and found the track. This song was their wedding song.

3. 'Little Wonders'- Rob ThomasHe discovered this song when he was at the movies watching Meet the Robinsons. He knew it had "computer animation stuff" in it so he was keen to see it. John fell in love with the song but didn't know it had already been out radio for the last 6 or 7 months, "I completly missed it". This song takes John back to when his son was 9 years old. "It's just that period when kids are a certain age that you really remember them, because they grow up, he's now 15 and completly different. That particular song really brings back to me that age that he was and we were such great friends."

4. 'Viva la Vida'- ColdplayThis is John's European Summer song. In 2008 there was no work around so he cashed in his frequent flyer points and went to Europe. When he was there this song came out and it was playing everywhere and in every country they visited but they had to wait till they got back "to try to figure out what the heck the song was."